July 2004

It still feels like Postopolis! only just happened, though it's been nearly two years. We've all moved on to new cities or we've had kids; books have been written; jobs have changed; the United States has a new president; the landscape of architecture and design websites continues to mutate, and... we've thus decided that it's time to do another one.And we're doing it in Los Angeles.

The first Postopolis! was hosted in the uniquely awesome perforated space of the Storefront for Art and Architecture; it was a collaboration between Inhabitat, Subtopia, City of Sound, and BLDGBLOG; and it was an exhilarating and exhausting five days' worth of back-to-back interviews, presentations, lectures, panel discussions, slideshows, short film screenings, roundtable discussions, slightly surreal international phone calls, and so on. This time it will be all that plus more art, film, and music, a larger international scope, hopefully several Spanish-language events and lectures, hopefully at least one minor earthquake, and just a short drive west to views of the Pacific Ocean. We'll be announcing the actual speakers and all other subsidiary events soon; for now, check out the Postopolis! LA page over at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, bookmark theotherblogsinvolvedinplanning all this, and watch out for more info coming soon! And each night will be free and open to the public, and all indications are that this thing will be as centrally located as something can be in Los Angeles. So come by at any point: from 5pm to 11pm each night. Postopolis! LA is sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt, and it will be part of Los Angeles Art Weekend.

It should be a lot of fun – thanks for the comments. Clare, Daniel, Brady, Nicola, Betalevel, I'd love to see all of you there.

Brady, the bloggers are from all over, but the speakers – an estimated 45-50 people, possibly more - will all be from LA (or the greater southern California region). The overwhelming majority of people participating in the event, in other words, are LA-based, so there is no shortage of local representation!

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